Climbing, October 2005

Country: USA
Language: English
Appears: 12 times a year
Website: www.climbing.com

EDITORIAL

LETTERS

FEATURES

Forgotten Stone
Tooth Rock, Arizona, is the largest freestanding spire in the Southwest desert. What, haven’t heard of it? Here’s why.
by Fitz Cahall
photos by John Burcham

After the Golf rush
In Colorado you used to make a choice: live the high-country life near the ice climbing and skiing, or shack up in lowlands near the good cragging. Now, towns like Ouray and Silverton let you have it all.
by Jared Ogden

Reality Check
In 1979,  a cover of a climbing magazine set a dream into motion. Only a midlife crisis could make it come true.
by Heinz Zak

Gallery
Beauty, power, determination, and a well-bolted Daydream.

TECH TIPS:
Alpine: improvising rap anchors
Sport: Grigri quick-feed
Trad: crack footsies

PUZZLEFEST

EQUIPMENT
Stoves for climbers – from tailgate to the high alpine.
by Larry Amkraut

JUST OUT
A bulletproof crag pack, a rope that lasts, and a adjustable harness with style.

REVIEWS
Beyond Gorp by Yvonne Prater, Ruth Dyar Mendenhall and Kerry I. Smith,
The Big Open by Rick Ridgeway,
Red River Ruckus, a film by Spencer Victory

GUIDES & TRAVEL

CLIMBER’S MARKET

ROCK GYMS

SUPPLIERS

VANTAGE POINT
Ashes to ashes: a careless friend’s last climb.
by Andrew P. Jenkins